News/Media Literacy

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Across
  1. 4. groups groups of people who share a point of view about an issue and try to influence public opinion
  2. 6. spectrum the range of political views
  3. 7. media that uses carefully-crafted messages to manipulate people's actions and beliefs
  4. 8. a representative of an interest group who contacts lawmakers or other officials directly to influence their work in the government
  5. 11. to anonymously release secret government information to the media
Down
  1. 1. not having ties to a political party
  2. 2. public the people of a community (town, state, country, world) as a whole
  3. 3. a law (or laws) that control the way that a business can operate or people can behave
  4. 5. opinion the ideas and attitudes that people hold about an issue or a person
  5. 6. having ties to a political party
  6. 9. pre-determined feelings in favor of (or against) one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair
  7. 10. press the parts of the media that engage in reporting current events, news, politics, and other stories of public interest